i just wanna say that being a Ukrainian is difficult asf. russia is literally committing genocide on us, kills our best people, strikes hospitals and houses, tortures civilians, murders children, all while still sitting un the UNSC and having a shit ton of influence over the West through propaganda. “white people” will never treat us as equal: they probably never even heard of us in the first place and thought we were a part of russia. they ask we if you have Internet or malls in Ukraine like it’s a cavemen county and not one in the centre of Europe. people of color think that we get some sort of “special treatment” in our literal struggle to survive, because they didn’t get it (i can’t blame them, really, but sometimes they go too far in their bitterness). our allies do help us, but they didn’t want to give us any sort of serious ammunition/weapons/warplanes because they were afraid of escalation. the UN congratulated the world with fucking russian language day on the day those bastards blew up the Kakhovka dam, killing hundreds, not evacuating civilians in occupied regions, because that was the point. killing. as a Ukrainian poet and politician Volodymyr Vynnychenko once said, and i hate that those words are true, “being a Ukrainian is being in a constant state of proving your right of existence.”
if you complain about antizionism being seen as antisemitism, why aren’t you condemning the people using antizionism as an excuse to chant “gas the jews”? why aren’t you condemning the destruction and vandalism of synagogues all over the world? why aren’t you condemning the harassment and targeting of random jews by antizionists?
if you wonder why jewish people aren’t antizionists, why they’re not coming to your protests, look at yourself! look at what people who are on your side are saying and doing! you may have “nazis dni” in your bio, you may have talked about punching nazis, you may even have made a post about how “not all jewish people are zionists!!” but when it comes down to it, when the nazis are on your side you don’t care. you don’t speak out against the people using your movement to harass and target jews then villainize jews who don’t feel safe.
Ask yourself, why are you so fine with the antisemitism from people in your movement? why do you not feel the need to speak out against it?
The worst part is, I cant even say I’m surprised. People only care about jews when it’s convenient. As sickening as this is, it’s the same story we’ve heard a million times.
